Name: SEMINAR: RGB+: Colour and its beyonds
Start: 2025-09-17T03:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-17T06:00:00+10:00
Location: Sir Roland Wilson Building, Anu

These days most colour we experience is funnelled through the three channels of our LED screens, but the meaning of colour has always exceeded its manufactured gamut.
In association with the Drill Hall Gallery exhibition 'Light Source', this seminar will bring together scholars exploring the historical and contemporary understandings of colour. Not only its chromatics, but its energetics, therapeutics, psychedelics, synaesthetics, and symbolics.
Speakers: Douglas Kahn, Honorary Professor at Sydney College of the Arts, and Professor Emeritus at University of California at Davis and University of New South Wales; Dr Jenny McFarlane, Curator of Arts in Health, for the Canberra Health Services; Roger Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Sir William Dobell Fellow at the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory; Tony Oates, Director, ANU Drill Hall Gallery.
Conveners: Dr Keren Hammerschlag, Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU; Dr Martyn Jolly, Honorary Associate Professor at the ANU School of Art and Design.
Image: Spectrum Analysis exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution London. 1. Simple Spectrum 2. Silver 3. Thallium, 1873